We are not on high alert—cops
Despite heavily armed police officers now guarding several police stations the Police Service is denying it is on high alert. Speaking during yesterday’s weekly press briefing public information...
View ArticleJack’s extradition documents arrive
The Office of the Attorney General has finally received the United States’ formal extradition request for former Fifa executive and current Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner. Attorney...
View ArticleMom, baby shot in Laventille
When women and children start getting shot, it is a sign that society is decaying, that there is a cancer plaguing. The analogy was made by a relative of Tehera Kerr who along with her son, Taheem...
View ArticleKamla on party financers: Others will also have to declare
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she intends to declare who are her party’s financiers but only if other political parties do the same. She said so at a luncheon by the Joint Consultative...
View ArticleNamdevco on packing contract: Ish was the lowest bidder
Aztec Asphalt Pavers, owned by UNC financier Ishwar Galbaransingh, won a $14 million contract in January last year to build the Brickfield Packing House, despite having no prior work experience with...
View ArticleRowley hopes for closure in Seetahal’s murder
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has said while he supported the work of the Police Service, he hoped the assassination case of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal will now be brought to a close. Leader of...
View ArticleMoonilal on home grants: Rumours from PNM just cheap politics
Deputy Political Leader of the United National Congress (UNC) Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal is accusing the PNM of employing cheap election gimmicks to sway the electorate in the run-up to the...
View ArticleMinister assures elderly: No devil links in biometric card
People and Social Development Minister Christine Newallo-Hosein has sought to dispel fears, particularly among the elderly, that her ministry’s biometric card is not associated with the devil.Speaking...
View ArticleEnterprise squatters get Certificates of Comfort
A number of squatters from crime hot spot, Crown Trace, Enterprise, were yesterday among 61 people who were given Certificates of Comfort (CoC) by the Land Settlement Agency (LSA). The residents, many...
View ArticleKhan: PNM army ready for battle
Opposition People’s National Movement leader Dr Keith Rowley had every single reason to look as relaxed as he did to frequently smile broadly and dance, waving a balisier flower at the party’s Arima...
View ArticleEscapees may have had inside help
General secretary of the Prison Officers’ Association, Gerard Gordon, yesterday admitted that some of his colleagues may have assisted in the escape of three remanded inmates from the Port-of-Spain...
View ArticleEmotional ride ahead
The family of Dana Seetahal, SC, has commended the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service following the arrests and charges laid against her alleged killers.During a police briefing yesterday Deputy...
View ArticleHe was destined to join service
When Chaguanas mother of two Octavia Abraham woke up yesterday she expected to see her son Sherman Maynard walk through the front door, as he always did after completing his duty in...
View ArticleI just wanted him out my car
“All I wanted to do was to get him out my car.”This was the comment from the PH driver who drove Christopher “Monster” Selby from the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (PoSGH) to freedom on Friday...
View ArticleExtra security at entry ports
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says all airports and sea ports have been placed on high alert as the manhunt for escaped prisoners Hassan Atwell and Christopher “Monster” Selby continues.In a...
View ArticleToo close to call in St Joseph
People’s National Movement (PNM) incumbent MP Terrence Deyalsingh will have a tough fight on his hands to retain the St Joseph seat.Deyalsingh captured the seat in a snap by-election in November 2013...
View ArticleMy husband’s devoted to Allah
Kelly Ann Gabriel, the common-law wife of Carapo’s Al Islamia member Deon Peters, is denying that her husband is associated with the murder of state prosecutor Dana Seetahal, SC.Gabriel, 38, is also...
View ArticleLaw body wants audit of prisons
The Law Association of T&T yesterday expressed deep concern over the “deteriorating state of command and control in the prison system in this country,” as it called for an “immediate and thorough...
View ArticleSt Louis, Chung take Solo Mixed Doubles title
As was expected, the father and step-daughter Frances-based combination of Dexter St Louis and Rheann Chung were crowned champions of the Solo National Table Tennis Championship Mixed Doubles...
View ArticleESCAPED PRISONER SHOT DEAD
Police are reporting that early this morning they discovered the body of Hassan Atwell, one of the men who shot their way out of Port of Spain Prison on Friday. However, Head of Corporate...
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